Summer 1928: The dancer Anita Berber is in an ailing condition lying in a Berlin hospital for treatment. A moment ago, she was a big star, the embodiment of a new era. In dozens of films, on stage and in real life, she had lived and loved dangerously. Until the hostilities in Vienna had heralded an uneasy sense of things to come… Thinking about her life path, she tries to identify the one decisive wrong move she made for her life to have come to this end. Schroeder narrates Berber’s exciting story of a life between self-determination, liberation and high risk – an enthralling panorama of the 1920s, and a protagonist ablaze with vitality.

Steffen Schroeder is an actor and writer debuting as an author with the novel Mein Sommer mit Anja in 2020, followed by the critically acclaimed Planck oder Als das Licht seine Leichtigkeit verlor in 2022.